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Leaving no child behind? : options for kids in failing schools / edited by Frederick M. Hess and Chester E. Finn, Jr.
Van Pelt Library LB1027.9 .L43 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
- United States.
- School choice--United States.
- School choice.
- Educational accountability--Law and legislation--United States.
- Educational accountability.
- Educational accountability--Law and legislation.
- Educational equalization--United States.
- Educational equalization.
- Physical Description:
- iv, 313 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
- Summary:
- NCLB is the signal domestic policy initiative of the Bush administration and the most ambitious piece of federal education legislation in at least thirty-five years. Mandating a testing regime to force schools to continually improve student performance, it uses school choice and additional learning resources as sticks and carrots intended to improve low-performing schools and districts. The focus is on improving alternatives to children in low-performing schools.Here top experts evaluate the potential and the problems of NCLB in its initial stages of implementation. This first look provides valuable insights, offering lessons crucial to understanding this dramatic change in American education.
- Contents:
- Chapter 2 Public School Choice: An Overview / Richard Lee Colvin 11
- Chapter 3 The Invisible Hand of NCLB / Siobhan Gorman 37
- Chapter 4 Options for Low-Income Students: Evidence from the States / Robert Maranto, April Gresham Maranto 63
- Chapter 5 Florida: Confusions, Constraints, and Cascading Scenarios / Jane Hannaway, Kendra Bischoff 89
- Chapter 6 Colorado: Layered Reforms and Challenges of Scale / Alex Medler 113
- Chapter 7 Michigan: False Start / David N. Plank, Christopher Dunbar, Jr. 137
- Chapter 8 Fumbling for an Exit Key: Parents, Choice, and the Future of NCLB / William Howell 161
- Chapter 9 Choice and Supplemental Services in America's Great City Schools / Michael Casserly 191
- Chapter 10 San Diego: Do Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth? / Julian R. Betts, Anne Danenberg 213
- Chapter 11 Worcester: Thunderous Clouds, No Rain / William Howell 239
- Chapter 12 Montgomery County: A Tale of School Choice / Douglas S. Reed 263.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1403965889
- OCLC:
- 54865557
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